African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness write by Mark A. Reid. This book was released on 2019-01-12. African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The interdisciplinary quality of the anthology makes it approachable to students and scholars of fields ranging from film to culture to African American studies alike.
Screens Fade to Black
Screens Fade to Black - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Screens Fade to Black write by David J. Leonard. This book was released on 2006-06-30. Screens Fade to Black available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was hyped as such by the media, eager to overlook the nuances of this sudden embrace. In this new study, author David Leonard uses this event as a jumping-off point from which to discuss the current state of African-American cinema and the various genres that currently compose it. Looking at such recent films as Love and Basketball, Antwone Fisher, Training Day, and the two Barbershop films—all of which were directed by black artists, and most of which starred and were written by blacks as well—Leonard examines the issues of representation and opportunity in contemporary cinema. In many cases, these films-which walk a line between confronting racial stereotypes and trafficking in them-made a great deal of money while hardly playing to white audiences at all. By examining the ways in which they address the American Dream, racial progress, racial difference, blackness, whiteness, class, capitalism and a host of other issues, Leonard shows that while certainly there are differences between the grotesque images of years past and those that define today's era, the consistency of images across genre and time reflects the lasting power of racism, as well as the black community's response to it.
Framing Blackness
Framing Blackness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Framing Blackness write by Ed Guerrero. This book was released on 2012-06-20. Framing Blackness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A challenge to Hollywood's one-dimensional images of African Americans.
Black City Cinema
Black City Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black City Cinema write by Paula Massood. This book was released on 2011-01-19. Black City Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture.Massood probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, she considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the "race" films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and hood films, as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the century. As it examines such a wide range of films over much of the twentieth century, this book offers a unique map of Black representations in film.
Envisioning Freedom
Envisioning Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Envisioning Freedom write by Cara Caddoo. This book was released on 2014-10-13. Envisioning Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film exhibition during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at the turn of the twentieth century, black Americans forged a collective—if fraught—culture of freedom. In Cara Caddoo’s perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to the 1920s. Across the South and Midwest, moving pictures presented in churches, lodges, and schools raised money and created shared social experiences for black urban communities. As migrants moved northward, bound for Chicago and New York, cinema moved with them. Along these routes, ministers and reformers, preaching messages of racial uplift, used moving pictures as an enticement to attract followers. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Facing a losing competition with movie houses, once-supportive ministers denounced the evils of the “colored theater.” Onscreen images sparked arguments over black identity and the meaning of freedom. In 1910, when boxing champion Jack Johnson became the world’s first black movie star, representation in film vaulted to the center of black concerns about racial progress. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans. In 1915, these ideas both led to the creation of an industry that produced “race films” by and for black audiences and sparked the first mass black protest movement of the twentieth century.
